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Individualised Budgets

Individualised Budgets and Self Directed Support is sweeping the western world as the
way for human services to radically transform which really delivers significant change for
people who use social care services. Often originating in Learning Disability services, it is
now being widely adopted across all social care services. Europe, USA, Canada, Australia
are all either piloting various models and ideas or engaged in wide scale implementation.
In Control, a UK based project to develop self directed support is probably the most
important social care project in the last decade. It has been piloting a radically different
way of organising social care that fundamentally changes where the power lies and should
leave people who use social care services fully in control of their own lives, funding and
supports.
Lots has been learned from the work around self directed support both here in the UK and
abroad and it all shows that the boundaries of existing structures, policies, rules and
practices have been stretched – all of which point to radical change, particularly for Local
Authorities.
This conference gives a unique opportunity to hear first-hand what has been happening
and what has been learned. It will be particularly useful for those organisations who want
to gear themselves up for a very different future which the White Paper will herald.